Senior Software Engineer, Substrate

The role

You will design and build Palantir's managed Kubernetes product offerings across on-prem, cloud and air-gapped environments. You will help run a fleet of hundreds of K8s clusters with zero manual steps, focusing on scale, stability and security.

What you will do

• Deliver a container runtime to new environment types: new clouds, on premise, edge devices
• Build automation and standards for operating K8s securely at scale with zero manual ops overhead
• Drive adoption of novel K8s features and CNCF tools, making upstream contributions as needed
• Design the next generation of Palantir's infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience on core infrastructure with emphasis on operational excellence
• 2+ years of experience contributing to system design or architecture of new and existing systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Systems programming experience with strong proficiency in golang, C/C++ or equivalent
• Working knowledge or hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, ansible, puppet or K8s operators
• Competent coding in Go, Java, or equivalent for automation or scripting
• Deep familiarity with hardware and OS configurations, diagnostic tooling, networking nuts and bolts
• Deep familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale
• Experience working with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCE), or sysadmin/SRE experience in data centers
• Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience with CNIs or cloud networking infrastructure

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance, plus voluntary life insurance
• Automatic basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year, subject to team and business needs
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Leave of absence program including military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including adoption, surrogacy and preservation
• Stipend for expenses that come with a new child
• 401k plan

Before you apply

• Palantir is an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers reasonable accommodation in the application and hiring process
• Palantir will never ask you to submit a payment or share financial information during interviews

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, helping partners develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. Its Substrate team runs the company's core production infrastructure of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters.